MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology articles

A team of chemists at MIT has formulated a method to produce polymers that can disintegrate more readily in the body as well as in the environment.

A new type of polymer designed by MIT chemists incorporates a special monomer (yellow) that helps the polymers to break down more easily under certain conditions. (Image credit: Demin Liu)

A chemical reaction known as ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) is usefu